[Nottingham] Debian lilo problems

[Mike Martin]

 --- Tony Leake <tony_leake@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi,
> 
> I have just installed Debian for the first time and have some
> problems with 
> lilo.
> 
> Apologies in advance if this turns into a long post but there's a
> lot of 
> 'relevant' information
> 
> The machine has run Mandrake for a long time but I wanted to try
> other 
> distros so I added a new slave disk (hdd) and installed Suse. Suse
> installed 
> grub, I think on the mbr of hdd as when I booted I got a Suse
> prompt, if I 
> selected 'other linux' I then got my normal Mandrake lilo prompt.
> 
> Next I decided to trash Suse and install Debian. I was given the
> option of 
> where to install lilo and I selected hdd. When I rebooted I got a
> screen 
> full of 01 01 01 etc, same from the boot disk. I re-installed
> Debian, this 
> time selecting hda for the boot loader, made another boot disk,
> same result, 
> 01 01 01.
> 

obvious question where in the boot process do these 010101's appear -
ie: do you get anything on the screen beforehand

> I rebooted using rescue and completed the installation and can
> reboot at any 
> time using rescue but no lilo.
> 
> I have also tried running mandrake's rescue disk and re-installing
> it's 
> bootloader, changing the bios to boot from hard drive 1 instead of
> hard 
> drive 0 but still the same result.
> 
> I don't know if it's relevant but the mother board is a MSI KM2M
> combo-L 
> running a 2.4 gig Athlon and both drives are Western Digital Caviar
> 20gb .
> 
> After searching google I believe it may be something to do with
> where the 
> boot loader is installed but I coudn't find and concrete help.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Tony
> 
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